“Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix.”

—  Larry Wall

[1994Apr6.184419.3687@netlabs.com, 1994]
Usenet postings, 1994

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